AISAP Launches Ghana Cardiac Initiative, Providing AI-Powered Diagnostics to Underserved Regions

Boston-based AISAP has announced a major field initiative in Ghana to deploy its FDA-cleared AI cardiac diagnosis platform as part of the country’s first nationwide cardiac sonographer training program. Conducted in collaboration with the G-ACT Foundation, the program aims to improve early detection of heart failure and valvular disease while establishing a new model for expanding access to cardiac care in underserved regions.

The project comes as Ghana faces a severe shortage of specialists, with fewer than 30 cardiologists serving its 35 million citizens. AISAP’s deployment demonstrates how AI-assisted diagnostics can fill the gap, offering a scalable blueprint for similar challenges in the United States, where more than 86% of rural counties lack practicing cardiologists. “AISAP brings world-class AI diagnostic capability that accelerates training, safeguards quality, and ensures every scan counts,” said Dr. Alexis K. Okoh, Executive Chairman of the G-ACT Foundation.

Adiel Am-Shalom, CEO of AISAP, said the initiative reflects the company’s mission to eliminate geographic barriers to cardiac care. “We are deploying the same FDA-cleared technology trusted by major U.S. hospitals across remote frontlines in Ghana,” he said. “This is proof that AISAP can help close the diagnostic gap for rural hospitals worldwide.”

AISAP’s Point-of-Care Assisted Diagnosis (POCAD™) platform was developed with Sheba Medical Center and trained on more than 300,000 echocardiograms and 24 million video clips. The AI system provides real-time cardiac interpretation with features such as Urgency Scores and quality assurance guidance, helping non-specialists make accurate, timely assessments. It is already in use at major U.S. health systems, including Mass General Brigham, Mayo Clinic, Jefferson Health, and Stanford.

The Ghana project operates under the G-ACT Foundation’s BEAT Program (Building Echo-capacity for Access & Triage), the nation’s first structured training initiative for cardiac sonographers. “The ability to deploy advanced, life-saving diagnostic capacity directly to our citizens is a monumental step forward,” said Prof. Yaw A. Wiafe of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. “AISAP’s technology removes traditional barriers and delivers immediate, tangible results for our population.”